Two children were treated in hospital in Belfast tonight after cars returning from a Protestant Orange Order parade in the east of the city was attacked by stone throwers.

Two men were stabbed in the abdomen and a woman punched in the throat in a Belfast city centre knife attack early today.

Two men being questioned by detectives about the murder of a man in a pub brawl were released unconditionally today.

A man was questioned tonight about a fatal stabbing which followed a row in a Belfast bar.

Plans to close down 21 post office branches across Northern Ireland will “rip the heart out of urban and rural communities,” it was claimed today.